Learning Activities for Students Grades 3-4
"Quilt of Cultures" is a unit of activities designed to help students define culture
especially in relationship to the African American culture during and after slavery.
Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools that are met by a visit to the site and
the learning activities.
History and Social Science: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7, 4.1, and 4.3
Mathematics: 3.14, 3.21, 3.22, 4.13, and 4.19
English: 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, and 4.9
Pre-Visit Activities
1. Vocabulary
Designed to help students become familiar with the terms used in activities and on
their trip.
2. Bulletin Board
After doing research, students will construct a bulletin board that has to do with
different cultures.
3. Cultures Game
Students will research different cultures.
4. Graph of Musical Taste
Students will do a survey of the most popular music in your school. Results will be
placed on a bar graph.
5. Cultures
Students will immerse themselves in the study of a culture.
Post-Visit Activities
6. Cooking Cornbread
Students will bake cornbread.
7. Cornbread Recipe
8. Banquet of Cultures
Students will collect recipes from cultures around the world and hold a banquet so
that others can sample their wares.
9. Identification
Students will identify people and terms brought forth in the program.
10. Sing, Sing, Sing
Students will learn several songs that would have been sung during Booker's
boyhood.
11. Quilt Making
Students will make a quilt that shows what they have learned about Booker T.
Washington and the slave culture.
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